Generally inventors are often unaware of the quid pro quo, that is fundamental to patent system. The display their invention to the world along with the process of making the invention, in return the government gives them the right in form of patents. One of the option for the inventors is to not file [...]
To know this before filing a provisional patent application you should do a comprehensive search of USPTO, and other US database. A patent agent will do this for their client or you can have trusted confidant. Be ready as you are likely to find a similar product and that is a good thing, as someone [...]
Every Inventor know very well what they have invented and what they plan to do with their invention. But the typical inventor has a terrible sense of what their invention could be. A Patent Application should certainly protect what the inventor is doing and what they want to do, but remember in order to get [...]
Patent Processing can be very tedious and costly to an inventor who wishes to have a patent protection for their invention. But there are certain steps of the process that should not be neglected because of financial constraint, otherwise your effort could actually be counter productive and work against you in the end, not to [...]
Why Startups need to know about Patents? And yes there is definitely a correlation between startups and patents. Patents are not only restricted to Inventions or Inventors but Startups also have a relation with intellectual Property Rights. Moreover just not a relation, Intellectual Property Rights do protect Startups. Do I Have to build it [...]
So how is it possible that there is a single world-wide application but no world-wide content? Patents are granted by individual countries, not by any international authority. Soon the European Union will change this by granting Europe wide patent, but even then to obtain a patent around the world multiple jurisdiction will need to authorize [...]
